Punishibility of Artificial Intelligence Technology

Abstract

In determining the type and measure of punishment to be imposed on the offender, the court is guided by the general purposes of punishment. The court is expected to assess and evaluate each case in this context, based on two types of considerations: data about the offense (in rem) and the about the offender (in personam). When the court evaluates these two types of data, it does so through the prism of the general purposes of punishment. In the modern criminal law there are four accepted general purposes of punishment. The four purposes are retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation. These purposes are discussed below.